The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.


SENATE-Bills were passed on the Sth requif1
ing snow-bound roads in the country to be
cleared four feet ten inches wide, and fixing the
term ST eotrts in fort cen judicial circuits. As
sembly bills we're etaneHFred in to authorize
sheriffs to offer rewards net Is exceed 5000 for
the capture of any person whose crime is pun
ishable by not less than five years impriso1i;
ment. A bill was killed TO provide for the ap-
pointment of State fish and game warden.
ASsEMBLY-The Senate bill creating the Of
fee of Assistant State Law Librarian at a sal
airy of Si;500 per gear was non-eoneurred in.
The Senate bill appf6pFiating 5000 for the ppr.
pose of placing monuments at the head of Wis
consin soldiers buried on the battlefield of
Gettysburg was unanimously concurred ill.,
Bills were passed to erect the county of Mills
with Hurley as the county-seat, out of the east
ern portion of Ashland County; to require that
all plans Of county jails and poor-houses be
submitted to the State Board of Charities and
Reform; to punish any person who delivers i'm
pure or adulterated milk TO cheese factory
by a fine not exceeding 500; to punish by a fine
not exceeding 800 or imprisonment not exceed
ing one year any person who with intent to de-
fraud issues bank cheeks upon banks in which
he has no deposit,
NSENAFH-A bill was passed on the 9th provid-
ing that in civil actions change of place of trial
may be made when the prejudice of the people
of the county is liable to prevent fair verdict
The bill increasing the pay of county surveyors
from So to S. per day was concurred in.
AssEMBLY-Bills were passed: Permitting
the enlargement of cemeteries by condemnatory
proceedings where necessary; appropriating
$4,000 for the reclamation OF certain swamp
land in Manitowoc and Calumet Counties; ena-
bling Boards of Supervisors to forbid the set
iYern f do IF
dangerous periods After an exciting debate q
resolution was voted down which proposed to
so amend the constitution as to compel foreign
ers coming to the State in the future to reside
here i've years instead of one before being able
to vote. The bill prohibiting the Introduction
of any body Of armed men into the State to per-
form police duty was defeated by q vote of SO
to So.
SENATE-On the 10th the bill to incorporate
the city of Kaukauna was passed, and the bill
to increase the annual salary of the Librarian
of the State Historical Society of $1,000 per
year, was killed. A petition was presented
from the Milwaukee Board of Trade asking the
enactment of law abolishing all bucket-shops
in the State.
AssEMBLY-Bills were passed: TO prohibit
opium joints in the State; to require railroad
companies to keep saw and axe on the out
side as well as inside of passenger coaches; to
prevent the introduction and spread of con-
tagious diseases among domestic animals and
for the appointment of State Veterinarian at
$4,000 year; to authorize railway companies to
swear in special police in times of emergency;
to provide that bank stock be taxed in the
town in which the bank is located; compelling
all towns, villages or cities to raise as much for
support of their schools as they receive from
the common school fund of the State; Senate
in hot OH il iuca in fba tnf
asylums be sent to county asylums, and that
the State pay So per week per patient for their
care, and to appropriate $4,000 to erect addi-
tional buildings at the School for Dependent
Childred at Sparta. The Senate memorial to
Congress praying for an act for better protec-
ton against pleuro-pneumoniaw was concurred in
SENATE-Bills were passed on the 18th to in
corporate the city of Richland Center; provld-
ing that deer may be killed only between Octo-
Der and November 10; woodcock between July
10 and December1; ducks, geese. prairie chick
ems, and all varieties of grouse, pheasants and
quail between September 1 and December :;
offers, beavers, and all other fur bearers, be-
tween September and May 1, and no such fur
bearing animals shall be killed or trapped in
streams flowing wholly or partly on lands
owned by parties who are breeding them. AS
sembly bills were concurred in increasing the
penalty for unlawfully practicing dentistry.
and permitting railway trains to pass over rail
road crossings provided companies guard the
crossings The Assembly bill was killed pro-
vidng for an exemption from the payment of
poll-tax of honorably discharged soldiers, sail
ors and mariners Adjourned to the evening of
the 18th.
AssEMBY-Bil1s were passed to compel elect
ors of school districts to vote at each annual
meeting on the question of supplying students
with free textbooks to punish one using false
pretense in obtaining registration of CATTLE and
to punish any one for giving a false pedigree :;
to provide that any parent who abandons his or
her children in destitute condition shall be
imprisoned not to exceed one year; to punish
two or more persons who combine to injure the
business or reputation of another; to punish
any person who prevents another from doing a
lawful act or compels him to do an act against
his will; also the memorial to Congress asking
that an Indian school be established in this
State. Two bills calling for the adjustment of
convict contract labor were killed.
SENATE-Bills were passed on the 18th es-
tablishing punishment at life Imprisonment of
any man who shall carnally know girl under
fourteen years of age (this is an increase of
four years to the present statutory age of girls
in such cases.; making the maximum penalty
fifteen years for enticing chaste unmarried
females away from home for immoral purposes;
to punish any person who shall wear Grand
Army of the Republic badge for purposes of
fraud: providing for the burial of all INDECENT
soldiers of the late war; providing for the pun
ishment of persons who for purposes of fraud
issue bank checks when they have no money on
deposit to meet the same
AssEMBLY-The bill providing that any per-
son who sells oleomargarine or imitation cheese
to any person without making known its true
character to the purchaser shall be punished
by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days or
fine not exceeding ga vas passed. The bill to
make the rate of interest chargeable on tax
sales on redemption fifteen instead of twenty
killed